Tel Aviv immigrants become bound with each other during the Scud attacks of
the Gulf War (1990-1991)

Spoiler Warning: below is a summary of the
entire movie.

Eli is a lady chaser and his most recent girlfriend tells him: "Eli, it’s
over." The landlady Rosa introduces Eli to some new immigrants from Russia who
will be his neighbors: Yana and her husband Fimke. Eli is rude to the new people
saying that they are not welcome.

Yana is three months pregnant. Her husband seems to care more about the
nice sum of money he has just received courtesy of the Israeli government.
Her husband heads back to Russia. Yana wants to go with him, but he
insists that she stay in Israel. While Fimke is away, Eli shows some of
his films to Yana. He is avid videographer. The Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein appears on the television shortly before the Gulf War.

Another Russian immigrant family moves into Rosa's building. Isaac
Turpin, the grandfather, moves in with his daughter and son-in-law along with
their young child. The son-in-law places the very sad-looking and sleepy
grandfather, who is in a wheel chair, on the street and leaves him there near a
accordion player who plays his instrument for tips. The son-in-law expects
the accordion player to look after the older man, who was a hero in World War
II. The accordion player does not like having the older gentleman
next to him, because the man's sad looks brings him the vast majority of the
tips. In face, grandpa does very well in getting tips and the son-in-law
is very happy with the sum. The accordion player and the son-in-law start
to get into a fight because, whenever the accordion player moves his location,
the son-in-law parks grandpa right next to him.

Fed up with grandpa and the son-in-law, and tired of losing tip money to the
older man, the accordion player pushes grandfather in his wheel chair over near
the sea and leaves him there. The son-in-law is livid with anger
when he finds discovers grandpa missing.

Yana has been crying because it has been so difficult to get to talk to her
husband in Russia. Then one day her mother-in-law just suddenly confesses
to her that Fimker is not coming back. Yana is very upset at the news and
cries. To drown her sorrows, she decides to go with Ely to a wedding where
he is making a video. At the wedding, Yana drinks a lot. They bring
a lot of food home with them from the wedding.

Yana decide to fly back to Russia. But she quickly finds out that any
immigrant who stays less
than a year in Israel has to get a release from the bank. She gets desperate and
makes a run for the plane but they
catch her and put her in jail. Now she needs someone to bail her out, so she calls Eli.
Eli bails her out.

On the telivision, news arrives that the United States condemns the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

The son-in-law starts fighting with
the accordion player in still another dispute over grandfather. The
accordion player handles himself well in the fight and the son-in-law breaks it
off. Later the police arrive to investigate the fight. They learn that the
accordion player teaches
music to the local kids. Back at the apartment of the accordion player, the
police make sure the kids' parents take them home.

Rosa the landlady is mad when she hears that Yana wants to leave the
apartment and she demands that she leave immediately. Yana needs another 1,100
shekels and again she borrows the money from Eli. On the street Yana discovers
that Eli has been following and filming her. She goes to the
gynecologist to get an abortion and Eli is there to film her entry into the
building. She motions for him to get lost and goes inside.

The accordion guy and his daughter can’t understand what is being said on
Israeli television. Yana is looking for a job. She sees an ad for
someone to baby-sit for the Russian grandfather and she goes over to the
apartment to ask for the job. But an older man, who is a bit of an amoral
hustler, also sees the ad and he rushes over to the apartment. The ad is
for a woman, but the hustler talks the son-in-law and daughter into hiring him.
Yana arrives, but it is already too late.

Saddam Hussein says he has six million soldiers who will fight for Iraq.

Yana watches some of Eli's videos (with her name on them) and discovers the
depth and length of the videoing. She watches the films and then takes
them to her apartment where she starts smashing them. Eli arrives and
tries to stop her, but she locks her apartment door. He gets up on a
ladder to see into the window above the door. He takes pictures of her
busting the videos. He takes pictures of her ruining
his tapes. While up on the ladder he grabs for support and out of the attic
falls a great many of Rosa's old letters.

Yana reads the letters. One letter mentions her son, Sgt. Pavel Turbin,
missing in action in the battle against the Jordanian Legion, Jerusalem, June 6,
1967. Pavel had Immigrated to Israel at the age of three. It appears that
back in Russia Rosa has fallen in love with the now elderly Russian war hero.

USA, England, and Saudi Arabia attack Iraq to push it out of Kuwait.

Rosa is very upset when she learns that Yana had read her letters. Rosa gets
in her car and starts driving to see Yana. But along the way she hits
the accordion man with her car. While she is sorting out the situation, she recognizes the Russian war hero
as the father of her son. His name is Isaac Turbin. Rosa runs over to him
and starts to renew the relationship all over again. She wants to take
care of him, but she gets considerable resistance from the suspicious son-in-law and daughter.
(Finding Isaac, Rosa's attitude to Yana completely changes. She becomes
friendly with the new immigrant.)

The Israeli authorities say that all citizens must carry their gas masks at all
times. An air raid siren goes off. as a SCUD missile explodes. Eli and Yana rush
to the sealed-off safety room. There they start
making love. In the attacks, seven missiles landed and seven people were wounded.

With the missiles landing and the son-in-law and daughter away, the hustler
decides he does not want to watch grandfather after all. He turns the job
over to the very willing Rosa. Rosa grabs at the opportunity.

During another attack, Eli and Yana have a second love-making session. Grandfather's
family returns from their trip. They are shocked to find Rosa sleeping in
bed with grandfather. They throw Rosa out. But the daughter thinks that
Rosa might be good for her father. Her stubborn husband, however, does not
agree and in arguing with his wife starts throwing a few things at her.

A siren sounds and Eli looks forward to another session of sex with Yana. But
it turns out to be a false alarm. Eli is not happy.

Yana's husband Fimke is back, but Yana sends him back to
Russia. The son-in-law and daughter of Isaac Turpin are set on going
to the United States. A siren goes off again and Yana and Eli kiss. Rosa comes
in and tells them that their neighbors are taking Isaac with them to America.
Meanwhile, Isaac’s daughter tells her husband that they should let her dad stay
with Rosa.

But Yana, Eli and Rosa put their plan into effect. They kidnap Isaac from his
apartment. The son-in-law awakens, finds out that his father-in-law is missing
and chases after the culprits. The daughter follows after her husband. She
shouts to Rosa "Rosa, stop! We’re giving him to you."

They push grandfather in his wheel chair toward the ocean. They lose control of the wheel-chair and
grandpa and the chair head down to the beach. Grandfather is thrown onto the
sand. Near the ocean, he slowly gets up and takes a few steps. The
accordion player shouts: "I knew it! Faker!"

Good movie. Immigration is almost always hard for the immigrants.
And this is true in Israel, as well as the United States. Yana and her
husband are given a hostile reception by Israeli Eli. And, after the
husband takes the Israeli government money and runs back to Russia, the landlady
Rosa, a Russian immigrant herself, gives the innocent and victimized Yana a hard
time. But Yana survives her husband's abandonment and builds a new life
with the now interested Eli. The rough-edged Rosa finds her old love, a
recently arrived Russian immigrant, and softens to become a much kinder and
nicer person with a close relationship with Yana and Eli. All this takes
place against the trial and tribulations associated with immigration and during
the Gulf War in which the Allies pushed Iraq out of Kuwait. The
flourishing of love during a time of war and stress makes for an interesting
movie.